pretending to be ordinary

Sister 2022-04-22 07:01:46


I don't know the director's intention, but at present this film is regarded as a case of describing and reflecting on ordinary life.

I can only say that I have no sense of substitution at all. I clearly feel that this is a movie, which is different from life.
I think a good movie is usually said to be "realistic", not only resonant but even a rhythm (breathing or atmosphere, etc.) co-rhythm.

This film is really rare to make me feel such a strong sense of "watching a play". . .

When I looked back at the profile, I laughed. ordinary? This family is anything but ordinary. One of the presidents of NJ company, his wife is going to be a monk, and his daughter is in a bloody love. The brother-in-law himself is a prodigal son, and he also carries romantic debts. Neighbors Mrs. Jiang and daughter Lily are both headline figures.

Only the mother-in-law stayed out of it from the start. Yangyang watched from the sidelines.

For three hours, I watched one farce after another, the refined version of the 8 o'clock TV series, what is it not a dog blood platter?

In the end, the blood was over, and everyone was tired. Sending a sigh of relief, the story is over.

These extraordinary people, ready, want to live ordinary days.



Just the happy event at the beginning of the film and the funeral at the end are enough of a sense of formality. If you describe life in such a pretentious way, it is because your life is not real.

What I want to shoot, and I really feel it, there is too much difference. Pretending to be ordinary, it also looks so hypocritical and awkward.

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Yi Yi: A One and a Two... quotes

  • Ota: Why are we afraid of the first time? Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice. We're never afraid of getting up every morning. Why?

  • Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.